…bringing our past into the future
GUTHRIE FAMILY James Guthrie was among the earliest pioneers of this county, coming here about 1798. He was of Irish birth, as was also his wife Margaret (Dixon) Guthrie. They patented and settled upon a tract of heavy timbered land, containing 336 acres. This Mr. Guthrie cleared up and lived upon it until his death. … Read more
James Guthrie James Guthrie is one of the oldest residents of Apollo, Armstrong county, Pennsylvania, having come there in 1833, from Westmoreland county, where he was born September 20, 1806. His parents, William and Agnes (Dixon) Guthrie, were among the earliest settlers in the county last named. During his early life the subject of our … Read more
Daniel Brodhead Heiner James Guthrie is one of the oldest residents of Apollo, Armstrong county, Pennsylvania, having come there in 1833, from Westmoreland county, where he was born September 20, 1806. His parents, William and Agnes (Dixon) Guthrie, were among the earliest settlers in the county last named. During his early life the subject of … Read more
John Hill Among the pioneers of Western Pennsylvania was the Hill family. They came from “east of the mountains,” and settled near Salem, Westmoreland county. While residing here the father of the family was captured by a band of Indians, and taken to Hickory Flats, above Oil City, where he was mercilessly slaughtered. He left … Read more
HON. A. D. GLENN John Glenn, the progenitor of the Glenn family in Armstrong county and the great- grandfather of A. D. Glenn, came from Ireland when eighteen years of age, and settled in Center county, Pennsylvania. He married Mary Borland by whom he had two daughters, Ann and Mary, and four sons, Robert, John, … Read more
William J. Bargerstock William J. Bargerstock, a prosperous and enterprising farmer of Wayne township, Armstrong Co., Pa., was born on the land where he now resides, June 16, 1855, son of Henry and Mary (Neal) Bargerstock. John Bargerstock, his grandfather, was born in Germany and brought his family to America, settling on the farm now … Read more
Obediah Barnhart The Barnhart family have been prominently identified with the early settlement of Western Pennsylvania, especially the county of Butler. The Barnharts, as their name would indicate, are of German extraction. John William Barnhart, the progenitor of the American branch of the family, came from Germany in 1764 and settled in Westmoreland county. He … Read more
Major Joseph G. Beale The family of which the subject of this sketch and of the accompanying portrait is a representative is one of the oldest in the State of Pennsylvania. One of the progenitors of the family came over the ocean with William Penn, and, being a civil engineer by profession, was employed by … Read more
General Daniel Brodhead General Daniel Brodhead, of revolutionary fame, whose portrait appears elsewhere in this volume, was born in Marbletown, Ulster county, New York, in 1736, and died and was buried in Milford, Pennsylvania, November 15, 1809. He was the great-grandson of Capt. Daniel Brodhead, of the English army, who came to this country in … Read more
HON. JOSEPH BUFFINGTON Â Joseph Buffington, for many years judge of the “old tenth” district, and whose life was intimately connected with the history of Armstrong county, was born in the town of West Chester, county of Chester, on the 27th of November, 1803, and died at Kittanning on the 3d of February, 1872. The ancestors … Read more